NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 5 August, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: w  d  e  h  n  o  y

  • Total Answers: 33
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DE

  1. DE4 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy-eyed sounds like buoy, doer, doo, doom, due

DO

  1. DO5 — lacking neatness in dress or person; marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste; blowsy; frowsy; slobbish sounds like daddy, howdy, rowdy

  2. DO4 — toward or in a lower position; from this or that place; brought or having come to an end; below; downward sounds like dawn, dean, den, din, dine

  3. DO6 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat; to reject by or as if by a vote; bowled (down or over); dropped sounds like around, bound, drowned, found, hound

  4. DO5 — smooth or delicate in appearance or feel; cottony; satin; satiny; silken

EN

  1. EN5 — to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; bless; endue

  2. EN7 — to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; blessed; endued

HE

  1. HE5 — to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to bring down by cutting; chopped (down); cut (down) sounds like food, had, hadd, hid, hide

  2. HE4 — to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to give steadfast support to; chop (down); cut (down) sounds like hue, huge

HO

  1. HO7 — as in square dance; square dance; blowout; celebration; event sounds like showdown

  2. HO8 — sounds like moneyed, monied, undo, undue

  3. HO5 — sounds like dowdy, heady, rowdy

NO

  1. NO5 — sounds like coco, cocoa, gnome, hoe, knoll

OW

  1. OW4 — not yet paid; outstanding; overdue; owing; payable sounds like add, aid, aide, awed, bode

  2. OW5 — as in retained, possessed; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; possessed; retained sounds like and, earned, end, honed, ode

WE

  1. WE6 — of or relating to marriage; to give in marriage; to perform the ceremony of marriage for; conjugal; connubial sounds like added, dud, edit, ended, faded

  2. WE4 — as in comb (out); comb (out); check off; disregard; deter sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed

  3. WE6 — as in winnowed (out), picked over; as in combed (out); culled; picked over; screened sounds like needed

  4. WE5 — growing thickly and vigorously; lush; luxuriant; prosperous; rampant sounds like beady, needy, reedy, seedy, t*

  5. WE5 — very small in size; very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty sounds like genie, wiener, wino

  6. WE4 — to move from one place to another; journey; pass; repair; run sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend

  7. WE6 — to move from one place to another; to move from one place to another; journeyed; passed; ran sounds like ended, tended, wounded

WH

  1. WH4 — how delightful; glory; ha; hallelujah; hey sounds like bee, fee, key, knee, pea

  2. WH4 — at or during the time that; just at the moment that; in spite of the fact that; as; so long as sounds like den, hen, one, pen, ten

  3. WH4 — sounds like boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

  4. WH4 — as in white-faced; white-faced; untanned; anemic; bloodless sounds like bee, fee, key, knee, pea

WO

  1. WO4 — tree logs as prepared for human use; a dense growth of trees and shrubs covering a large area; a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; lumber; timber sounds like could, good, hood, should, wad

  2. WO6 —

  3. WO6 — lacking social grace and assurance; awkward; clumsy; gauche; graceless sounds like widen

  4. WO5 — as in wagon, SUV; convertible; fastback; hardtop; hatchback sounds like goody

  5. WO5 — to act so as to make (something) more likely; to act so as to make (something) more likely; asked (for); courted; flirted (with) sounds like food, lewd, mood, nude, rude

  6. WO6 — sounds like guru, voodoo, who, whoop, whoosh

  7. WO5 — sounds like bowed, loud, wad, wade, wed

dewy, dowdy, down, downed, downy, endow, endowed, hewed, hewn, hoedown, honeydew, howdy, nohow, owed, owned, wedded, weed, weeded, weedy, weeny, wend, wended, whee, when, whew, whey, wood, wooded, wooden, woody, wooed, woohoo, wowed